Early Number Fun teacher development programme
This programme is designed as a community of Grade R teachers from 10-12 local schools who meet on a monthly basis to engage with issues around developing number concepts in pre-school learners. The focus on the development of a well functioning and supportive teacher community is based on the assumption that teacher learning is greatly enhanced through active participation in ‘communities of practice’ and is informed by Wenger’s sociocultural theory of learning in communities of practice (Wenger, 1998). This aligns well with current SA teacher education policy that foregrounds the importance of localised teacher communities for enabling professional development (DBE, 2015).
The programme will be co-ordinated by the SANCP team, namely Prof Mellony Graven, Dr Debbie Stott and Ms Carolyn Stevenson-Milln and will emphasise relationships with teachers as partners in the endeavour to find ways to strengthen Grade R learning. The SANCP team will contribute research informed resources, ideas and access to professional networks while teachers will contribute critical contextual knowledge and experience of working with learners in local and diverse school contexts. Furthermore the programme will draw on expertise from a range of Grade R practitioners with experience in teaching, lecturing and/or researching early pre-school learning to lead and participate in sessions.
At the heart of the programme is a research informed ‘early number fun resource kit’. This kit will be provided to all fully participating teachers for use in their classrooms. This kit will contain a wide range of resources such as dominoes, dice, flash cards, bead strings, number-story books, posters and so forth. Multiple sets of the resources will be provided for individual and/or paired learner use in classrooms.
More information about the research that informs each of these can be found in our ENF Programme - Discussion document.
This programme drew to a close on 1st August 2017.
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Resources
The session resources can be accessed in to ways:
- Using the schedule below, click on the resources link to access the resources provided in that session
- If you want to see all the resources by type (i.e. Cognitive control, story books, growth mindset etc), click here
2017
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Date |
Topics |
Venue |
Presenters |
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Session 7 |
|
Room 36, St Peter's Campus |
Debbie Stott |
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Session 8 |
|
Room 36, St Peter's Campus |
Debbie Stott |
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Session 9 |
|
Room 36, St Peter's Campus |
Mellony Graven |
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Session 10 |
Six Bricks session with Grades 1 & 2. Resources |
BLT, Education Department |
Debbie Stott |
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Session 11 |
|
BLT, Education Department |
Debbie Stott |
2016
| Date | Topics | Venue | Presenters |
| Session 1 19th April 2016 |
|
Post Graduate Village |
Mellony Graven
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| Session 2 17th May 2016 |
|
Post Graduate Village Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 1:30pm-4:30pm |
Mellony Graven |
| Session 3 20th June 2016 |
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Post Graduate Village Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 1:30pm-4:30pm |
Mellony Graven |
| Session 4 19th July 2016 |
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Post Graduate Village Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 1:30pm-4:30pm |
Mellony Graven |
| Session 5: 5th September 2016 |
|
Makana Resort Grahamstown 1:30pm-4:30pm |
Hamsa Venkat |
| Session 6: 25th October 2016 |
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Makana Resort, Grahamstown 1:30pm-4:30pm |
Mellony Graven
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